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Initial Ideas.
Initial Ideas.
Song?
Genre? Performance or Narrative?
Target Audience?
Actors?
Props?Location?
Costume?
Conventions?
Length?Camera Shots?
Intertextuality?
Hair & Make-up?
how do I appeal to them?
Titles?
Editing?
(Things to consider)
My Music Video will be…• Narrative lead
• Belong to the Indie Genre• Targeted at Young People/Teenagers (aged about 13-25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAsGFnLl2u0
My Number- Foals
This is the song that I have chosen to create a Music Video for…
Justifying my song choice!
• When I asked members from my Target Audience, most people liked Music Videos which combined elements of Narrative and
performance. Yet on the whole Narrative Videos were preferred to performance videos, indicating that my Video
should either be a combination of narrative and performance or just a purely Narrative lead Video.
• The existing music video for this song is mostly performance based and in my opinion quite boring, thus this is part of the
reason I want to make a (hopefully) better Music Video for this song, that is not performance lead.
The song that I have chosen belongs to the Indie genre. This means I have more creative freedom when making it (compared to the freedom I would get making a Pop or Rock Video)- as one
of the main aims of an Indie music video is to be individual.
I have also chosen this genre because it was quite highly favoured by my Target Audience. (as you can see below in my
questionnaire results)
Indie Music Videos are notoriously low budget, and given the fact I have little/no funding to help me make this video- this
genre seems particularly appealing
The Lyrics of this song mean that they would fit relatively well with the narrative I have in mind.
As my second piece of Audience research shows, the relating the lyrics of a song to its Music Video
is particularly important to members of my Target Audience. And so it would make sense to ensure my storyline relates in some way to my
Music Video.
Idea
Characters;Boy & Girl
Protagonists keep almost
meeting/crossing paths i.e.One gets
off of a bus, the other gets on.
Lots of parallel editing, to
establish a link between the 2
main characters.
Narrative Music video
At the end of the video the two characters will finally meet.
The video will end in one of 3 ways…
Endings1.The Girl receives the Boy’s number gladly-
Happy Ending
2. The Girl does not receive the Boy’s number, it is somehow discarded by accident- Sad Ending
3. The Girl receives the Boy’s number and calls it, his ringtone is the song-
Ambiguous Ending
I’d like my music video to end with the two
protagonists’ meeting. However, I am unsure
how this should happen and so I have devised 3 alternate endings for my video, one of which I will
use in the final video.
Endings1.The Girl receives the
Boy’s number gladly, they make eye contact and seem content- Happy
Ending
2. The Girl does not receive the Boy’s number, it is somehow discarded by accident- Sad Ending
3. The Girl receives the Boy’s number and calls it, his ringtone is the song-
Ambiguous Ending
I also have an idea that I might allow
the 2 main characters to meet
at a Restaurant/Café at
the end of the video. In this scenario their
interaction would be ensured as one
would be a waiter/waitress and
they would write their number on the back of a bill, which
they would be handing the other
person.
Endings1.The Girl receives the
Boy’s number gladly, they make eye contact and seem content- Happy
Ending
2. The Girl does not receive the Boy’s number, it is somehow discarded by accident- Sad Ending
3. The Girl receives the Boy’s number and calls it, his ringtone is the song-
Ambiguous Ending
I also have an idea that I might allow
the 2 main characters to meet
at a Restaurant/Café at
the end of the video. In this scenario their
interaction would be ensured as one
would be a waiter/waitress and
they would write their number on the back of a bill, which
they would be handing the other
person.This ending would help to finalise the link between the characters
and make it explicit to the audience. My fear is it may be a
little cliché.
Endings1.The Girl receives the
Boy’s number gladly, they make eye contact and seem content- Happy
Ending
2. The Girl does not receive the Boy’s number, it is somehow discarded by accident- Sad Ending
3. The Girl receives the Boy’s number and calls it, his ringtone is the song-
Ambiguous Ending
I also have an idea that I might allow
the 2 main characters to meet
at a Restaurant/Café at
the end of the video. In this scenario their
interaction would be ensured as one
would be a waiter/waitress and
they would write their number on the back of a bill, which
they would be handing the other
person.The Camera would see the number which has been written on the back of the bill, however
the character would not, and thus they would screw it up and
discard the number.
Endings1.The Girl receives the
Boy’s number gladly, they make eye contact and seem content- Happy
Ending
2. The Girl does not receive the Boy’s number, it is somehow discarded by accident- Sad Ending
3. The Girl receives the Boy’s number and calls it, his ringtone is the song-
Ambiguous Ending
I also have an idea that I might allow
the 2 main characters to meet
at a Restaurant/Café at
the end of the video. In this scenario their
interaction would be ensured as one
would be a waiter/waitress and
they would write their number on the back of a bill, which
they would be handing the other
person.Here the video might end as it begins- with the same shot of one
of the protagonists picking up their phone. This would be a nice round ending, giving the video a
cyclical narrative.
Endings1.The Girl receives the Boy’s number gladly-
Happy Ending
2. The Girl does not receive the Boy’s number, it is somehow discarded by accident- Sad Ending
3. The Girl receives the Boy’s number and calls it, his ringtone is the song-
Ambiguous Ending
In order to decide between these three endings, I think I will survey some members
of my Target Group and make them choose which ending they think is best.
*the café scenario is hypothetical. But I still would like to know
whether the ending should be happy, sad or ambiguous.
Ideas of shots/activities
shots of them both reading the same book
but in different locations
Mid Shot of them Standing next to one another on the tube
Scene in which both characters are at the same party but do not interact
Parallel editing of them both making cups of tea in their
separate homes
Shot of Boy walking down a street at
Night. Shot of Girl walking down the same street in the
Day.
Shots in which the two characters wear the same or
similar types of clothing- maybe the same colour
THE END.